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Cover Picture: Methane and Carbon Dioxide Storage in a Porous van der Waals Crystal (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 12/2005)
Author(s) -
Sozzani P.,
Bracco S.,
Comotti A.,
Ferretti L.,
Simonutti R.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200590036
Subject(s) - van der waals force , supramolecular chemistry , molecule , cover (algebra) , carbon dioxide , methane , absorption (acoustics) , crystal (programming language) , materials science , chemistry , crystallography , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , composite material , computer science , engineering , programming language , mechanical engineering
Like a swarm of bees who find shelter in the hexagonal cells of the beehive, CH 4 and CO 2 molecules are stabilized by weak CH⋅⋅⋅π interactions within the open‐pore van der Waals crystals of tris‐ o ‐phenylenedioxycyclotriphosphazene. The supramolecular network is sufficiently robust to store a large number of gas molecules. In their Communication on page 1816 ff., P. Sozzani et al. describe the absorption properties of the crystals and the spectroscopic observation of gases trapped in the nanochannels.